How to find a job you love

Jobs that were meant for a lifetime are now a thing of the past. With new sectors of employment coming up, there are new opportunities that help an individual to seek a job of their liking. The issue is how to discover a perfect-fit job, something that you will love and enjoy. And more importantly, how do you ensure that for the rest of your life.

A broad outline to find a job that you love is as under:

·      Be genuine about job contentment: There is no job that is smooth sailing and hence to expect that a job will be total happiness amounts to being presumptuous. When you love your job, it will seem to be as an augmentation of your very individuality and not a gruesome task. Your ‘To Do List’ will serve to inspire you continually and you will be able to overcome hardships in doing them coolly. Job contentment is a stark reality of any work and it assumes different contours and silhouettes; if you love your job and career, the satisfaction that you derive will be of a high degree.     

·      Investigate & study your standards:  You should know precisely what is of significance to you and what you stand for; and the early you establish these, the better it will be. You should prioritise everything that matters to you. Whatever you catalogue can be very limited or run into pages, but will be exclusive to you. According precedence to various aspects will help you discern what signifies the most to you.

·      Discover your appeals & interests:  To be practical, it is essential that you know what you generally enjoy doing. What is that fuels passion in you? What is it that you wait to do? Your inclinations and penchants will throw light on what you are cut out for. Anything that you like doing, should not be thrust aside, even if you are not perfect at it because no time is late to begin learning. Moreover, you will be able to visualize where you actually yearn to be and the feelings that you will have when you are actually there. The crux of the matter is that you should not be fearful of dreaming and thinking unconventionally. And when you do so, you are able relate your interests and ambitions to likely careers. 

·      Get to know your capabilities:  No two persons are equal; you will have few highly advanced skills and some run of the mill types. This disparity should not worry you because the career market of today is all about skills that are transferable; the notion of perfect match is no more relevant. Traditional and typical career swings are fast becoming common occurrences, rather similar to linear career traffic. However, you need to know what you are good at so that you can put it to good use. The knowledge and expertise that you formally gain as also various soft skills and headship traits that you acquire over a period of time will always stand you in good stead. 

·      Be prepared to reskill & reorient:  Learning is an eternal activity and you should not be found wanting in your enthusiasm to train and refresh your expertise. The voids that exist between your current skills and future aspirations can be bridged if you acquire new qualifications. The more you sweat today, the less you will bleed tomorrow. 

·      Explore, inquire & study continually:  Your focus should be on delving into the oceans of knowledge and this would entail researching details about your field of work, job requirements and career paths. You should not be restrictive in your efforts. Reading and interacting with others will make you aware of where you stand and how you can contribute. Getting to know what people like about their work or organisations will help you in planning for your next move. You should make certain that the job that you are looking at matches your career and life objectives; and they are not at tangent with your principles and standards. And with everything new that you get to know about, your enthusiasm will soar high.

The key to finding a job that you love lies in identifying what you are made out to be and then garnering everything to achieve whatever you aspire for. Some changes and realignments may be inescapable, however the most important thing is to realise that you are the wheels of your career and that you will strive to make sure that you are geared up for any change that may be necessary. Most people are living not their dreams, but their apprehensions. You should be resolute enough to go move confidently in the direction of your dreams. If you believe that you will be able to move on, half your battle will stand won. Remember that if you run the day, the day will not run you. And you will not encounter any traffic jams on the extra mile that you may have to run to find a job you love.